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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Coding Convections - Enabling a feature by loading a file |
Date: | 04 Jun 2003 17:13:45 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> writes: > feature'). But what is the rationale behind the loading of a package > having no visisble effect? If the only purpose of a package is to A package might be loaded implicitly by something like `customize' just to get the list of groups/variables it offers. You wouldn't want to turn a feature ON just because you're browsing some of the related variables (you might even be browsing something that you didn't know was related). > (require 'bar-cursor) > (bar-cursor-mode 1) > instead of only: > (require 'bar-cursor) It should be only (bar-cursor-mode 1) because bar-cursor-mode should be autoloaded. Stefan
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